Ep 250: Listener Crit #12

 

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Ep 250
Matthew Buckley Smith

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good! Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review!

My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!

Steve Knepper's Thomist Poets reading

In the Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop
Jiro Dreams of
Sushi (2011)

A Letter by Anthony Hecht

Couples Therapy

Clipse

Lament by Thom Gunn

Secret Show notes

We Hogs Need This, Pt. 2

On Being Butthurt by Elif Batuman

Joan Didion

Matthew's appearance on the Rattlecast

August Wilson

Frequently mentioned names:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

Morri Creech

– Austin Allen

Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Amit Majmudar

Ethan McGuire

Coleman Glenn

– Chris Childers

Alexis Sears

– JP Gritton

Alex Pepple

Ernie Hilbert

– Joanna Pearson

– MattWall

– Steve Knepper

Helena Feder

– David Yezzi

– Victoria Moul

– Katie Dozier & Tim Green

– George David Clark

– Tristram Fane Saunders

– Philip Metres

– Helena Feder

– Nida Sophasarun

Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:

Poetry Says by Alice Allan

I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall

Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov

Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer

Alice: In Future Posts

Brian: brianplatzer [at] gmail [dot] com

Cameron: Minor Tiresias

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

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